Rhubarb Buttermilk Tea Cake

From a Chatelaine magazine that I found at the Doc's office.

• Ready In: 1 hr 25 mins
• Serves: 8-10

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1  egg
• 1  cup brown sugar
• 1⁄2 cup buttermilk
• 1⁄4 cup  vegetable oil
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 2  cups  chopped rhubarb
• 1⁄2 cup  chopped pecans (optional)

• GLAZE

• 1  cup icing sugar (powdered sugar)
• 4 -5  teaspoons lemon juice

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Lightly spray the bottom of an 8 x 4 loaf pan.
3. Stir flour with baking soda and salt in a small bowl. In another, larger, bowl whisk egg, brown sugar, buttermilk, oil and vanilla together until blended. stir in the flour mix.
4. Add rhubarb and pecans (if using) and stir just until combined. Scrape into the prepared pan.
5. Bake in center of oven for 70 - 75 mins or until a tester inserted into cake center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes Remove from pan.
6. While cake is cooling in the pan stir icing sugar with lemon juice in a small bowl, adding the juice 1 tsp at a time until thick and smooth. Drizzle the glaze over the warm cake when it's removed from the pan letting the glaze run down the sides.